James Merrick war britischer Dichter und Philologe.
“Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!”
Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right", Menander, Fragment.
“Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.”
The Chameleon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"The Sacred Poets of England and America For Three Centuries" printed 1848.
